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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Mood writes that Rilke's novel is "dialectically" what?
2. In what poems does Rilke refer to the rose as a "body of nothing but radiance"?
3. In "The Dragon-Princess," Rilke suggests that we hold our life to the most difficult, and that which now "still seems to us the most alien will become" what?
4. Who does Mood quote in the Epilogue with the line, "... tormentor and tormented pedant and dunce wooer and wooed speechless and reafflicted with speech in the dark mud nothing to emend there"?
5. Mood writes in the Epilogue, "Perhaps no poet, not even ____, grew poetically as much as Rilke."
Short Essay Questions
1. What happens once man has acclimated himself to solitude, according to Rilke in "The Dragon-Princess"?
2. What is the poem discussed in "The Difficulty of Dying"?
3. What has Rilke accomplished in his epitaph, according to Mood?
4. In "Blood-Remembering," what does Rilke write about the young as writers?
5. What does Rilke remark of the memories of "love" in "Blood-Remembering"?
6. What does Mood discuss in the introduction to "The Dragon-Princess"?
7. What word does Mood focus on regarding Rilke's writing of "The Dragon-Princess"?
8. What does Rilke remark of childhood memories in "Blood-Remembering"?
9. In Mood's discussion of "The Difficulty of Dying," what symbol does he analyze first?
10. What metaphor does Rilke use in describing solitude in "The Dragon-Princess"?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss the differences between Rilke's prose and his poetry. What stylistic elements are present in both? Which are limited to one or the other?
Essay Topic 2
Discuss the elements of Rilke's writing which make him a precursor to the feminist movement. What aspects of his writing and his theory are ahead of his time in these matters? How does he relate the female and the male form?
Essay Topic 3
What is the subject and theme of "Mausoleum"? What mythological allusion does the poet use in this poem? What structural components stand out in this poem?
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